Weekend Nutrition Bags

RLPC begins a new ministry in February. Each week through the end of the school year we will assemble Weekend Nutrition Bags for 20 Bridgeview Elementary School students. The bags will be delivered to the school each Thursday morning. On Fridays, while the children are in class, school staff distributes the bags. When school lets out, over 80 children open their lockers and find a bag in their backpacks containing 10 food items to take home. In this ministry we join our neighbor churches First Nazarene on Kentucky Ave. and Charleston Church of God (located at Fifth Avenue Church of God in South Charleston) who have been preparing these bags for a number of years.

Below is a list of items needed for the bags. You may buy and donate needed items, bring them to church on Sunday mornings or drop them off at the church office on a week day morning. If you prefer to give money to purchase food, place your financial donation in a blue pew envelope and write “Bridgeview” on the outside or send your donation to the church, (RLPC, 905 Village Drive, South Charleston, WV 25309) write “Bridgeview” on the memo line of your check. To make this project work we need shoppers, baggers and deliverers. A signup sheet for volunteers is available on Sunday mornings or you can call the church office, 304-768-4141. If you have questions please call Dee Dee Means, 304-744-0887.